Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 PN
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[What is the subjective impact when a sovereign imposes an objectorganization?
The subject loses responsibility and freedom.
The subject gains in words & bondage.]
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[What is the subjective impact when a sovereign imposes an objectorganization?
The subject loses responsibility and freedom.
The subject gains in words & bondage.]
[What does it mean for sovereign power to impose an object that brings the subject into organization.
The imposition forcibly reduces both the responsibilities and the freedoms of the subject.
What does the subject gain from this exchange?
Some would argue that everyone (the collective) gains by the good inherent in the object (such as a reduction in health care costs, greater health benefits, and so on, all deriving from the cessation of cigarette smoking).
That argument, however, merely re-asserts the intention of the pro-object. It ignores the subjective impact on the individual.]
[An (infra)sovereign religion cannot look at the character of the person. That would require seeing in terms of thinkdivine, a perspective that puts both sovereign and subject into context.
The (infra)sovereign religion can only look at people in terms of thinkpro-object and (its projection of) thinkanti-object.
The subject is reduced to the one accepting the object that brings the subject into organization.
Conformity to thinkpro-object becomes the common core.]
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[Consider the sovereigninfra as a being that reduces the person’s heart in order to impose an organizational good.
What are some of the implications?
Here is one.
This religious being (the sovereigninfra religion) looks down upon the person.
It sees a person (modeled according to the intersecting nested forms) and attempts to directly manipulate features within that model.
The religioninfrasov nudges.
The religioninfrasov pushes.
The religioninfrasov bullies.
The religioninfrasov reduces subjects accused of thinkanti-object to the position of homo sacer (see Giorgio Agamben).]
[Summary of text [comment] page 83
With regulation, I, seat of choice3V, is reduced to a subject to the sovereigninfra.
The mirror of the world3V forcibly aligns my choice2V with the thinkpro-object of the sovereign religion.
The words3H(2H of the sovereign place me in bondage2H(IH)).]
[With conversion, I, seat of choice3V, chooses something worth choosing2V that may conflict with many of my own tendencies1H.
I resolve my internal conflict by training my desires1H.
I begin to exercise new potential in me1H.]
[There is more potential in me1a than can be reflected by any human-instituted mirror of the world3a.
Conversion increases the person’s responsibility and freedom.
Regulation reduces the person’s responsibility and freedom.]
[Should harmful practices and behaviors be regulated?
The question is, of course, rhetorical.
It is the question posed by the Big Government Liberal in the mirror of the world3a.]
[The Progressive desires to organize opposition to tobacco products.
The Progressive pretends that a healthy lifestyle is an object that brings the individual into organization.
Is that Satanic?
No, if it aims to build the person’s character, to inform “him” of the consequences of “his” actions.
Yes, if it aims to impose the objectorganization upon the individual through sovereign power.
The former builds a person of greater responsibility and freedom.
The latter does not.]